Please Remember

Watching the small crowds of people declaring their rights Guns on their belts in their hands yelling at Governors and pressing at policemen Spitting at mask wearers, licking boxes and pointless fights Indifferent to the sufferings of neighbors, family and friends Unmoved by the tears and fatigue of nurses and medical teams Please remember in years gone by the names who have lived and died Suffering times, cruelty and fears— remember humanity’s most atrocious years The Holocaust, Ann Frank, attacks on the disabled, the old Hiding under wallboards and floorboards, in attics, in the woods, Sent to Concentration camps, Russian work camps, to death in Siberian Ice Mandela in Pollsmorr Prison, smallpox, the Indian’s Trail of Tears, Refugee children now during our times from fear of the others its over 3 years In contagious prisons torn from their families—hardship misery and pain Yelling for our rights over the attempts to keep us well to help our neighbors and friends As people drink beer and watch videos and complain and complain How dare we protect our grandparents from this illness from death Listening to the anger and threats — its fear I know its money, greed and attempt to blame Presidential desire for power and pathological indifference to others all back again But we must remember, we must, the horror on earth when mankind goes insane